Sorry guys, I can beat these hands down.
Consider:
A. I'm flying a B-26 on an acksweeping raid, coming in about 15-16k. Someone's begging on country channel to gun. I normally gun my own, but hey-- this is a milk run, and besides, I've got 5x.50 cal.
FNG gets on board.
"How do you operate guns?"
"Use the joystick"
"I don't have a joystick."
Uh oh. I seem to have forgotten the dot command to kick someone out of your plane. I try to ask him to leave.
"Why?" he asks in between wasting ammo.
Now here comes a spit into vis range. He's setting up the high six. I'm desperately calling up the HTC website to get the command.
Not in time. I bail and Alt-F4 before my corpse hits the ground.
B. 3 bus drives Over in Brand W. 1. Is similar to the C47 CFIT above. Only this was in the days of "Mass bus raids" where you drop enough troops to confuse the acks. We're NOE halfway there when the leader, afk, CFITs into a mountain. 2. It's a long range attack -- 40 miles over water as the crow flies. We have two Jus and a couple bombers. As I get near, I charge the field, door open, salvo set, but have to abort because the ack isn't down. I orbit north. The other guy orbits south. Finally after about 12 minutes -- when rebuild makes any hope of getting another bus from base dashed -- they shut down the field. I charge in, pickle and ...
I must have slipped and dropped all the paratroopers into the water, below min safe parachute height.
3. A sneak attack on a main field in the back. My CO acksweeps in a B17. I've got the bus. He calls clear. I charge in. I'd been practicing the "max-effort" landing where you skid, break the wing off on the tower and stop feet away, giving the troops a 20 second walk. It's great if the field is capped or you're expected a rebuilt. neither of these conditions obtains here. I come in too hot, clip the wing and my wreck goes flying into the side of a hangar. Doh!
C. I'm flying a B-26 to finish off HQ in the NE corner, and I don't realise I have icons turned off. It's the spit at d.2 on my 6 that reminds me, just before chewing the plane up.
